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podcast. I'm Dali Lithvik and I cover the Supreme Court for Slate. This week we're going

to focus on a big case argued this week at the court. It's called Zoomic versus Burwell,

although you may know it better as Hobby Lobby Act 2 or the Little Sisters case. Two years

ago, the US Supreme Court decided by a five-four split that closely held for-profit corporations

with religious objections to the so-called contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act could

opt out of covering those devices and products even though the Obama administration had deemed

them necessary for basic preventive healthcare for women. Now, in the majority opinion in Hobby Lobby,

the court authored by Justice Samuel Alio. The court said that the fact that there was a work

around, an opt out that was granted to objecting not for profits meant that that was of work

around that Hobby Lobby should get to. Here is Samolito reading that portion of the opinion from the bench.

Although HHS has made this system available to religious nonprofits, HHS has provided no

reason why the same system cannot be made available when the owners of four-profit corporations

have similar religious objections. And we therefore conclude that this system constitutes an

alternative that achieves all of the government's aims while providing greater respect for religious

liberty. And under RIFRA, the MAC conclusion means- Fast forward two years and the problem for

the court and the principal issue in Zoomic is that this work around isn't going to satisfy

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